Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-08-05
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

be held in Seattle, in July, 1883.
Large quantities of hay on the low
er Skagit were rendered unfit for cut
ting by the sediment which lodged in
it when the land was inundated by the
river.
Prospects are good for railroad be-
tween Portland and Vancouver. The
rails have been telegraphed for. The
Julien system Of electric storage bat
teries will be used to supply the mo-
tive power.
The Northern Pacific offers to furn-
ish free transportation for a carload
OF Washington Territory products,
from Tacoma to St Paul, to be exhibit
ed at the G. A. R. National Encamp-
ment at st. Louis.
Workmen are engaged in construct
ing telephone line between Seattle
and Tacoma. Let us hope that it may
be productive of peace and that when
the vigorous Hello" resounds over
the wire it may not be answered by a
use of the same syllables in reversed
order.
The peach crop of Yakima county,
which has never been sufficient to sup
ply the local demand, will this year af-
ford a surplus for export. Large num-
bers of trees are coming in with first
product. The Yakima peach is re-
markable for fine flavor and is gener-
ally unsurpassed.
The non-union longshoremen at
work lately at Seattle for SO a day,
were prevented from working by a
gang of union men, who insisted that
they should have 81 day. The at
tack was SO desperate that bloodshed
was feared, and the employers decided
to pay the amount demanded.
We fear our esteemed Seattle con-
temporary, now SO industriously labor
ing to turn the grain trade from its
natural channel, will find itself in the
same fix as the faithful hen that re-
solved to lay an egg every day in the
year. She didn't have time to put a
shell on half of her productions.-Ta-
coma Neus.
1t was currently reported that James
Mcknight of Seattle had been ap-
pointed General Attorney for the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
vice Colonel Clough, resigned, at a sal
ary of $4,000 per year for five years,
and that he would soon leave with his
family for st. Pa ul, where his head
quarters will be established.
Archie Lawyer, noted Indian
preacher, is described as full blood
Nez perez Indian, over six feet tall and
weighing over 200 pounds, smooth
features and a ready and fluent speak
er of both the Indian and English
languages. He has been resident of
Idaho all his life, and is personally ac-
quainted with Chief Joseph and all
the incidents of the Nez Perce out
break in II.
VIM. Watson, of the Tacoma flour
mill reports, says the Ledger, that
business was never better at the mill
than at the present time, but, contin-
ued he, We cannot get any wheat.
We, however, except $500 bushels
from Eastern Washington soon which
cost us 81 10 per bushel. This of
course is all old wheat, and in a few
weeks following the harvest there will
be great quantities of wheat shipped
to Tacoma over the switchback."
1t is estimated by those who are in
a position to observe, says the What
com Reueille, that over 200 Cinnamon
have passed through Whatcom county
enroute for Seattle and down Sound
towns during the past thirty days. 1t
is safe to say that each Chinaman
brought from across the line ten
pounds of opium. They go through
unmolested. Never before has SNUG
Cling been carried on so boldly and un-
interruptedly as at the present time.
A Portland paper says that gen.
tleman who returned from Gray's
harbor lately reports that great activ-
ity prevails there in the lumber busi-
ness. Large orders are received from
San Francisco, owing probably to the
boom at Los Angeles and San Diego.
The great trouble is a scarcity of
schooners to carry the lumber. At the
mill of J. NJ. Weatherwax at Aber.
deem, several million feet of lumber is
lying on the wharf awaiting transpor-
tation.
w. H. White, U. S. Prosecuting At
torney, is at Vancouver taking testi-
mony in the case of the St. James
Catholic Mission vs.. General John
Gibbon and the United States of
America. This suit involves the title
to the lands occupied by the mil
itary authorities at Vancouver, and
valued at between three and four mil
lions of dollars. Among the witnesses
to be examined is General Rufus In
gals, chief of staff of General Grant,
who located the post in 1S47.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press, of the
18th, gives the following as the result
of an interview with Vice-President